# Invite multiple people to a topic
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-multiple-people-to-a-topic/69025
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 30, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-multiple-people-to-a-topic/69025 "2017-08-30T04:06:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@barryvan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barryvan)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-multiple-people-to-a-topic/69025/1 "2017-08-30T04:06:35Z")
I often find myself wanting to invite multiple people to a topic – for example, to alert our support team and the relevant relationship manager to a post. As it stands, I have to invite each person individually, closing the modal each time. This was raised [two or so years ago](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiple-invites-on-single/45779) – and the advice was to use the API. That makes sense for _lots_ of invites, but for just one or two, it’d be great to do this from the UI.
I do think it’s worthwhile imposing a limit here – maybe 5? – but the current limit of one is quite frustrating. The UI – admittedly not the text – suggests that multiple users would be supported, as it reuses the same user-selection control as for group membership.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-multiple-people-to-a-topic/69025/2 "2017-08-30T04:34:50Z")
> [@barryvan](#):
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> for example, to alert our support team and the relevant relationship manager to a post.
In this case particular case you could invite a group.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 4:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-multiple-people-to-a-topic/69025/3 "2017-08-30T04:38:25Z")
I’d like this… in the wild, we end up seeing people use the path of least resistance in place of this, which looks like a post that just says:
* * *
@userA @userB @userC @userD
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 4:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-multiple-people-to-a-topic/69025/4 "2017-08-30T04:39:11Z")
That is actually better, IMO, since it is visible to everyone.
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### Author:  [@barryvan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barryvan)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 4:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-multiple-people-to-a-topic/69025/5 "2017-08-30T04:40:18Z")
> [@HAWK](#):
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> In this case particular case you could invite a group.
Sometimes – if they’re all part of a group. 😉 The difficulty here is that I’d have to create a whole slew of groups – one each for the cross product of individual SRMs (“School Relationship Manager”), support leads, and system leads – which rapidly becomes quite a lot of groups.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 4:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-multiple-people-to-a-topic/69025/6 "2017-08-30T04:41:23Z")
> [@barryvan](#):
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> which rapidly becomes quite a lot of groups
Hearing you. I’m curious though – aside from the peskiness of having to create all those groups in the first instance, what’s the downside of lots of groups?
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### Author:  [@barryvan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barryvan)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 4:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-multiple-people-to-a-topic/69025/7 "2017-08-30T04:43:26Z")
> [@HAWK](#):
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> aside from the peskiness of having to create all those groups in the first instance, what’s the downside of lots of groups?
Mainly just the peskiness of creating and managing those groups. Although admittedly I could probably have already created all of them in the time I’ve spent on this topic! 😆 I’d also have to come up with reasonable names – I suspect I’d end up with groups with names like “jane+fred+ramesh” and “jane+alistair+kate”.
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### Author:  [@yanokwa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yanokwa)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-multiple-people-to-a-topic/69025/8 "2019-03-25T22:00:30Z")
There seemed to have been a wee bit of traction here and it died out. @HAWK, is this a change where y’all would welcome a PR? Especially since the new Share UI adds even more clicks to get to the invite dialog…
Update: To be clear, if y’all want to fix it, that’d be way better. But if you can’t, I can stumble through and figure it out and send in a PR 🙂
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 10:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-multiple-people-to-a-topic/69025/9 "2019-03-25T22:50:04Z")
Does your use case mean that inviting a group won’t work?
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### Author:  [@yanokwa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yanokwa)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-multiple-people-to-a-topic/69025/10 "2019-03-25T23:27:36Z")
A group doesn’t work. It’s usually 5ish people but a random group of people.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-multiple-people-to-a-topic/69025/11 "2019-03-26T03:46:21Z")
If it’s only 5 is there a reason that you can’t just tag them in the post?
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### Author:  [@yanokwa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yanokwa)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2019, 4:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-multiple-people-to-a-topic/69025/12 "2019-03-26T04:26:45Z")
Tagging is visible to everyone, so I feel it:
1. Adds pressure to the tagged person to respond when I just want them to be aware of the topic.
2. Lets the community see too much of the puppeteering that goes on to get folks to participate in topics. It spoils the magic.